Car-seat.



Patented Oct. 2 I900.

P. M. KLING. CAR SEAT.

(Application filed Feb. 28, 1898.)

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Patented Oct. 2, I900. P. M. KLLNG.

CAR SEAT.

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PETER M. KLING, OF ST, LOUIS, MISSOURI.

CAR-SEAT.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 658,949, dated October 2, 1900. Application filed February 28, 1898. Serial No. 671,941. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, PETER M. KLING,-a citizen of the United States, residing at the city of St. Louis, in the State of Missouri, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Oar-Seats, of which the followingis a full, clear, and exact description, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, forming part of this specification.

My invention relates to certain improvements in that class of car-seats that are commonly known as walk-over seatsz'. e., a seat the back of which is so connected to its support that it can be shifted from side to side Without being revolved or turned over in reversing the seat.

The object of myinvention is to so construct such a seat as to make it strong,'durable, and easy to reverse, while at the same time the mechanism that connects the back to its support does not form an end to or obstruct the seating capacity of the cushion.

My invention consists in features of novelty hereinafter fully described, and pointed out in the claims.

Figure I is an end view of my improved seat. Fig. II is a detached perspective view of the mechanism at one end of the seat for connecting the back to its support and showing also the arms that carry the seat-cushion. Figs. III, IV, and V are detached perspective views which will be hereinafter specifically referred to. Fig. VI is a diagram illustrating the operation of the parts, the parts being seen in the position they occupy when the back is half-way reversed. Fig. VII isa' like view with the parts in the position theyoccupy when the seat is in using position.

1 represents the frame of the seat, having the usual stationary end castings 2, provided with sockets 3 (see Fig. V) to receive the connecting-rails 4.

5 is the back of the seat, and 6 the cushion. The back is provided with stationary end brackets 7, the lower ends of which are connected by links 8 to a shaft 9, to which the links are keyed or otherwise held from revolving thereon. (See Fig. III.) The ends of the shaft are journaled in the end pieces 2 and are free to rock as the back is reversed, their rocking action being effected by the movement of the back, which imparts movement to the shaft through the connectinglinks' 8.

Y 10 represents links pivoted to the brackets 7 at 11 and to the end pieces 2 at 12 at points above the shaft 9. The distance between the outer ends of the links 8 and 10 is greater than the distance between their inner ends, and the link 10 is somewhat longer than the link 8, so that as the back is reversed it ass'umes an inclined position, as shown in the drawings,

To guide the back as it is being reversed and to keep it from turning-in the wrong direction on its pivots 11 when in its upright position, (shown in Fig. V1,) I employ levers 13, one at each end of the seat, pivoted at 14 to the links 8, and the upper ends of which have a slot-and-pin connection 15 with the brackets 7. The lower ends of the levers have longitudinal slots 16, (see Fig. IV,) that receive stationary pins 17 on the end pieces 2 of the seat. The levers have heads 18, in which are made segmental slots 19, that receive the shaft 9, as shown in Fig. II. As the back is reversed the slot-and-pin connection between the levers and the back and between the levers and the end pieces 2 prevent the levers from interfering with the reversing of the back while the levers perform the function above stated.

In this class of seat it is desirable to tilt the cushion as the back is reversed, so that it will assume the desired angle. This I accomplish with my improved device as part thereof by supporting the cushion on four arms 25, two at each end of the seat, these arms being connected at their lower ends to cranks 26, secured to the shaft 9, so that as the shaft is rocked in reversing the back the arms, and consequently the cushion, will be shifted, as illustrated in Figs. VI and VII, the arms resting upon and being supported by the connecting-rails 4. The cushion is thus moved by the back, by a crank-and-lever action, which requires but little additional exertion in reversing the back.

By extending the brackets 7 below the top surface of the cushion and connecting the links 8 and 10 thereto at points not above the top surface of the cushion, and providing the lovers 13 to keep the back from tilting as it is being reversed, the seat is armless and there are no obstructions at the ends of the cushion to diminish the seating capacity thereof.

1 claim as my invention- 1. In a car-seat, the combination of a frame having end pieces, a back provided with brackets, upper and lower links connecting said brackets to said end pieces, and levers having slot-and-pin connections with said brackets and said end pieces and which are pivoted to said lower links, substantially as set forth.

2. In a car-seat, the combination of a frame having end pieces, a back provided with brackets extending below the top surface of the cushion of the seat, upper and lower links connecting said end pieces to said brackets at points below the top surface of said cushion, and levers having, slot-and-pin connections with said brackets and said end pieces, and which are pivoted to said lower links, substantially as set forth.

3. In a car-seat, the combination of a frame, a back provided with brackets, upper and lower links connecting said brackets to said end pieces, a shaft journaled in said end pieces and to which said lower arms are secured and by which said lower arms are connected to said end pieces, and levers having slot-and-pin connections with said brackets and with said end pieces and which are pivoted to said lower links, said levers having heads provided with segmental slots to receive said shaft, substantially as set forth.

4. In a car-seat, the combination of a frame having end pieces, a cushion, a back provided with brackets, upper and lower links connecting said brackets to said end pieces, a shaft journaled in said end pieces and to which said lower links are secured and by which said lower links are connected to said end pieces, cranks on said shaft, and arms connected to said cranks and which carry said cushion substantially as and for the purpose set forth.

PETER M. KLIN G.

In presence of E. S. KNIGHT, STANLEY SToNER. 

